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running the reports automatically in jazz reporting services

Venkatesh Prasad (2110) | asked Feb 28 '17, 4:52 a.m.

Hello All,

We have a requirement in our project where we need to prepare the jrs report results in excel format and then share it with client.
To do this, I have created 6 reports in JRS (Report builder is at version 6.0.1). These 6 reports are to be manually run every day and then extracted into excel and there, I need to consolidate all 6 reports into one excel and then share it with client.

I need to automate this process.
So, my question is
a) Is there a way to run the JRS reports through scheduled jobs or cron jobs, etc.
b) Can we automate the extracting of JRS report results into excel sheet through a job or through some command line utilities, etc..
c) Is there a way to extract the report results into the existing excel sheet. I know that when we export the jrs report results into excel, it does give us a option to do so by giving us a link asking us to copy into excel's 'Data--> From Web' . But what I need is to know if there is an option to do this in the background through some command line, api, etc.

Venkatesh Prasad

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Clara Forero (6212) | answered Mar 01 '17, 11:20 a.m.

Hi Venkatesh,

When you export the results into an Excel workbook you are presented with two options: Download a spreadsheet with live data and Download a static spreadsheet with the current report results.  If you select the first one (live data), the excel file will have on the first sheet a couple of buttons that you can use to make the results dynamic and to refresh them.  You can refresh your data at any time.

As far as I know, there are no scheduled jobs or automatic API's that you can use.  Using the button to refresh the data would be the best option.

Thank you,

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